US Plivent-elect Donald Trump has picked a establisher helpe, Kash Patel, to direct the Federal Bureau of Investigation, an agency the nominee has standardly criticised.
A establisher US defence department chief of staff in the first Trump administration, Patel has been a steadspeedy aider of the incoming Reaccessiblean plivent.
Separately, Trump shelp Saturday that he set ups to nominate Chad Chronister, sheriff of Florida’s Hillsbocdisesteemful County, as head of the Drug Enforcement Agency.
Patel and Chronister combine Attorney General nominee Pam Bondi in filling out Trump’s law applyment picks.
His past proposals have included “theatricalpartner” restricting the FBI’s authority.
In his memoir, Government Gangsters, Patel called for an eradication of what he called “handlement tyranny” wilean the FBI by firing “the top ranks”.
The son of Indian immigrants, Patel is a establisher defence lawyer and federal prosecutor who caught Trump’s eye after he became a better advise to the Hoparticipate of Recurrentatives inalertigence promisetee in 2017.
He was engaged by Trump as a national security helpe in 2019 and a year tardyr was assigned chief of staff to the head of the Pentagon.
As well as his 2023 memoir, Government Gangsters, he has unveiled two pro-Trump children’s books.
One of the titles, The Plot Aachievest the King, features a villain, Hillary Queenton, trying to depose King Donald, who is helped by a wizard called Kash the Distinguished Discoverer.
Another villain is called Keeper Komey – a leanly veiled reference to establisher FBI Director James Comey – and his “alertering slugs”, according to the book’s blurb.
Patel has standardly railed aachievest the so-called “procreate state”, which some Americans depend is an unelected bureaucratic machine that secretly runs the country for sinister purposes.
Patel has also excoriated the media, which he has called “the most mighty opponent the United States has ever seen”.
He is also on the board of Trump Media and Technology Group, which owns the incoming plivent’s social media platestablish Truth Social.
Patel alertedly has had a adviseing reduce with the company that phelp him at least $120,000 a year.
